Recent content by Gayson

Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists

OACETT has a policy to award former Combat Engineers with SGT / WO experience with certification as an Engineering Technologist.

UPDATE Liaison office finally got back to me. Since engineering is not available at a distance directly through DCS, I can actually apply for fulltime engineering studies, at a non-subsidized rate, through DCS. This means that I would remain within the DCS while attending the engineering...

I'm currently a Cpl in the reserves. I'm finishing off a Civil Engineering Technology diploma at Humber as well as working on a B.Sc part-time through the division of continuing studies at RMC. Upon completing my diploma I wish to move onto university to complete a B.Eng. I have some...

At the same time, it's funny how many things haven't changed much at all. Many moons ago my mother was a member of the LSSR then later the service battalion in Thunder Bay.  It was so uncommon for women to join the military that there was a newspaper article on her when she got on a plane to...

I think a lot of people would be surprised to hear (or not surprised at all) that half the students in a class I took thought Canadians were fighting in Iraq. Honestly, I find the arguments made by many groups, especially the less educated and informed ones, to be rather irrelevant.

I took a course last year called War and Terrorism. Myself and one other were pretty much the only non-hippies there. Luckily, very very few of them ever figured out I was a member of the CF, might have been bad. Luckily, the actual professor held a somewhat non-biased stance (She was...

Good news the two guys came up negative after testing.

Most schools have programs set up for military service.  At my institute I simply need to tell my program coordinator what the deal is and he makes the arrangements for my integration back into class.

I have to agree. BC has a very large coastline and a large population. I don't believe Vancouver is going to get attacked anytime soon, but I think it makes sense to have a battalion there.  If Canada were to ever be attacked, it's coasts would provide a good means to land troops. At the same...

Read this article in the paper, tough times he's going through, I'm glad to see he is doing such a good job.

I completely agree with your last post. Sadly, violence is a crucial and required means of removing the taliban.  We need to remove their influence with force as much as possible before an ideology will be able to grow.  I believe the development of an ideology, such as the movement you brought...

I see this as great news. Victory in Afghanistan, complete victory, where a democratic government is able to maintain the country with stability, is a long way away.  To achieve this aim, in many ways an ideology within the country needs to be developed so that the government and its citizens...

When I used it, my unit provided the staff.  I think this is how it's going these days. To bad the roof collapsed from snow.

I have trained inside that hanger. The mock town looks very impressive and offers a lot of training value.